Richard Spencer: The Trump Moment Is Over

Aside from Occidental Dissent, I remember how Richard Spencer was making these points during the transition. We were both very alarmed about the Cabinet picks, the Deploraball controversy (what it meant in terms of norms) and especially the legislative agenda of the incoming Congress:

Here’s how I viewed Trump in December 2016:

+ He’s appointing what he ran against
+ He has a year and a half to enact meaningful immigration legislation
+ The time to be critical of him is nowhttps://t.co/Z6TtfbsC3w

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) November 20, 2018

In chess, your opening is all important. The middle game is where the action happens, and the end game is decisive. But if you botch your opening, it is almost impossible to recover.

Donald Trump botched his opening.

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) November 20, 2018

Indeed, Trump misfired before he took office—appointing the very people he ran against. As I played out in 2016, Trump basically had a year and a half to enact lasting immigration reform. The Midterms are always tricky and once 2019 rolls around, it’s election season once again.

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) November 20, 2018

Trump didn’t seize this moment. He instead enacted Paul Ryan’s agenda. Throughout 2017-18, we got lots of hilarious tweets but, policy-wise, Trump’s presidency differed little from what we could have expected from Jeb or Marco.

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) November 20, 2018

The Trump moment is over, and it’s time for us to move on.

— Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) November 20, 2018

For those who are just joining us, I have put together a timeline of Trump’s first year which includes all the things you may have missed which you were being prescribed 4D Chess arguments:

OD Timeline: Trump’s First Year (Part I)
OD Timeline: Trump’s First Year (Part II)
OD Timeline: Trump’s First Year (Part III)

Here are some more year in review posts:

Trump Trends: Social Media Censorship
Trump Trends: Leftwing Political Violence
Trump Trends: Trump’s Conservative Agenda
Trump Trends: Alt-Right Alienation

I wrote all of these posts around this time year. I will be working on updating them to cover what happened and how these trends continued in Trump’s second year over the next two weeks.